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A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
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Long
Long Time
Political
Week
Time Long Long Time
Politics Time Long
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In politics a week is a very long time.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Politics
Time
Long
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The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Industry
Labor
Monarchy
Intensive
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This Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Moral
Crusade
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Change
Smile
Acceptance
Life Changing
Rejects You
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The only limits of power are the bounds of belief.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Power
Belief
Limits
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The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
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Moral
Party
Political
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I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Messy
Middle
Middle Of The Road
Muddle
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Power
Office
Party
Treasury
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One man's wage increase is another man's price increase.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Work
Men
Money
Increase
Political
Price
Wage
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Funny
Optimist
Carries
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I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat.
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Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Chance
Equal
Flying
Should Have
Start
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If the Tories get in, in five years no one will be able to afford to buy an egg.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Able
Eggs
Years
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Essentials
Prime
Prime Minister
Sleep
Main
Minister
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Eugenics
Revolution
Socialism
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Redefining
Revolution
Socialism
Terms
Scientific
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Food
Choices
Salmon
Vinegar
Between
Choice
Smoked
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Debating against him is no fun, say something insulting and he looks at you like a whipped dog.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Dog
Fun
Sarcastic
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It is quite clear to me that the Tory Party will get rid of Mrs Thatcher in about 3 years time.
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Predictions
Years
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Good Night
Health
Ability
Assets
Believe
Night
Sleep
Greatest
Asset
Greatest Asset
Head
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Change
Smile
Architect
Cemetery
Decay
Life Changing
Progress
Rejects
Rejects You
Teaching
Only
He
Human
Institution
Which
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All these financiers, all the little gnomes of Zürich and the other financial centres, about whom we keep on hearing.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Business
Hearing
Littles
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The ambition of the present Labour government is that every worker in the country will have a greater than average income.
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Government
Ambition
Country
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The office of president requires the constitution of an athlete, the patience of a mother, the endurance of an early Christian.
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Athlete
Christian
Mother
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The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.
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Matter
Might
Zimbabwe
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Selsdon Man is designing a system of society for the ruthlessness and the pushing, the uncaring. His message to the rest is: you're out on your own.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Design
Men
Ruthlessness
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Tories never actually talk about getting rid of their leader, then suddenly there us a flash of steel between he shoulder-blades and rigormortis sets in.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Blades
Leader
Steel
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Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not get his licence returned when it falls due.
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Dog
Fall
Taken
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This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.
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Politics
Party
Political
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I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Knowing
Littles
Phrases
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May I say, for the benefit of those who have been carried away by the gossip of the last few days, that I know what's going on. I'm going on, and the Labour government's going on.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Government
Benefits
Gossip
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Unconditional Love
Acceptance
Common
Crawling
Given
Unconditional
Way
Wind
Fair
Head
Held
Market
Negotiate
Offered
Terms
Yes
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From now on, the pound abroad is worth 14 per cent or so less in terms of other currencies. That doesn't mean, of course, that the Pound here in Britain, in your pocket or purse or in your bank, has been devalued.
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Mean
Pockets
Purses
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The labour party is like a stage-coach. If you rattle along at great speed everybody inside is too exhilarated or too seasick to cause any trouble. But if you stop everybody gets out and argues about where to go next.
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Causes
Next
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The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.
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Government
House
Majority
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At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister. Over and above communication and vigilance, there are two factors I have always mentioned. They are sleep, and a sense of history.
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Political
Sleep
Successful
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There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Ministers
Pay
Prime
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We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution ... The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or outdated methods on either side of industry.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Science
Practice
White
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On 5 September, when the TUC unanimously rejected wage restraint, it was the end of an era, and all the financiers, all the little gnomes in Zürich and other finance centres about whom we keep on hearing, had started to make their dispositions in regard to sterling.
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Eras
Hearing
Littles
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With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U.S.]
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Science
Struggle
Survival
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[Criticizing as "appalingly complacent" a Conservative Government report that by the '60s, Britain would be producing all the scientists needed] Of course we shall, if we don't give science its proper place in our national life. We shall no doubt be training all the bullfighters we need, because we don't use many.
Harold Wilson / Former Prime Minister Of The United Kingdom
Government
Science
Giving
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